2007-11-09 20:37:31 · 13 answers · asked by Gawdless Heathen 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you can't, that's one of the reasons that Christianity doesn't make sense at its core. You can't have both. The attempts by Christians to reconcile the two results in a lot of embarrassingly bad double talk.
How do they squawk the talk with a straight face?
Ciao,
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-11-10 02:33:08 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"God is willing that none should perish, but that all might come to repentance" and man often chooses darkness, and willfully decides to not follow after God. My ex wife left me because I "didn't fulfill her happiness". And many Christians act in very similar ways-choosing not to walk in accordance with His will. We like Adam and Eve are always free to eat of forbidden fruit. The consequences are usually the same. Sometimes immediate and some down the road a bit. In the case of my ex for instance; she became truly miserable a few years later and hid my child from me for over ten years purely out of spite and because she blamed me for her miserable state after she left me. I can say this: perhaps she reaped what she sowed.
So "free will" may be convenient in the short term but we will reap what we sow.
2007-11-09 20:52:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God didn't make us just so we would be puppets or His own computer programs doing only the things He wants us to. God gave us free will so we could make our own choices. God has shown us right from wrong. God has told us what we should, and should not do but He lets us make our own decisions. If God made, forced, or created us to do things His way (one way) and His way only. We would have no choices in life. We'd work at the job only He wants us to work at, we'd marry the only person He said we have to marry. Every day would already be planned out for us. That isn't the way life was meant to be. God gave us choices and leaves the decision about what to do, how to act on those choices up to us. We should know what Gods will is in the choices but making the choices is up to us.
2007-11-09 20:50:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Molinism and Thomism make attempts to resolve this issue, "knowing but choosing not to know" (I don't get it either), and God existing outside of time, therefore your will is free but known.
2014-11-14 15:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's will is creative, to make things better. The devil's will is to undermine God's will. Our free will is to choose wisely between the two, to be better or to be worse. To be reconciled with God's will, we have to abide in Him, be creative and improve ourselves righteously.
2007-11-09 20:49:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God's Will for us is perfect. But we have the "Free Will" to accept it or not. However many many times when we reject God's Perfect Will He throws up road blocks before us to try to turn us back.
2007-11-09 20:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How can one reconcile oil and water?
2007-11-09 20:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With an XL spreadsheet and a basic knowledge of accounting (Enron Style)
2007-11-09 20:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by oldersox 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Im god, then of course my free will is God's will.
2007-11-10 01:20:33 · answer #9 · answered by Menon R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply release your faith by accepting His free gift of salvation.
2007-11-09 20:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by Smile 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋